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Brit Music Scene

April 11th, 2008

Coldplay Reveal Official Tracklisting For New Album ‘Viva La Vida’ - So What?!?

We already know that the new Coldplay album will be going by the name of Viva La Vida. Now, we also know the ten tracks that will make up the album, which is due out on June 16th.
In a blog post on their official website, Coldplay have announced the official track listing, which is as […]

By Dave Parrack -- 1 comment

January 27th, 2008

Charlatans Give ‘You Cross My Path’ Album Away Free On Xfm | Mimicking Radiohead?

The Charlatans have announced that their new album You Cross My Path will be available as a free download from the Xfm.co.uk website for two months prior to getting a full physical release.
This will the long running British band’s tenth studio album, but first to go the way of digital downloads as it’s preferred […]

By Dave Parrack -- 0 comments

December 23rd, 2007

Leon Jackson Is British Number One - ‘The X Factor’ Dominates Christmas Charts

Leon Jackson has made it to the top of the charts, and thus continued the trend for X Factor winners grabbing the Christmas number one.
Leona Lewis is still sitting at number one in the album charts, making it a clean sweep for the ITV music reality television show.
Leon won The X Factor last Saturday, […]

By Dave Parrack -- 0 comments

November 21st, 2007

Leona Lewis Beats Arctic Monkeys Record For Fastest Selling British Debut Album

X Factor 2006 winner Leona Lewis has broken another record, this time for the fastest selling British début album of all time.
She already held one record previous to this week, after her debut single ‘A Moment Like This’ was downloaded 50,000 times in the first half hour of its release last December and sold […]

By Dave Parrack -- 3 comments

September 26th, 2007

Radiohead New Album Release Preceded By Mysterious Codes On Official Website

The new Radiohead album has been recorded and mastered ready for release early next year, but more details than that have been hard to track down.
To give the fans some clues and to build the hype up ahead of the release, the British band have been leaving cryptic messages on their official website for […]

By Dave Parrack -- 1 comment

August 25th, 2007

Prince Contest Winner Reviews ‘Planet Earth’

Last month Prince gave his brand new album ‘Planet Earth’ away with a British newspaper. To celebrate this, I held a contest where one lucky reader of Brit Music Scene could win a copy of the album.
The lucky winner was JM from that little country they call Australia, and I dispatched the album to her […]

By Dave Parrack -- 2 comments

July 17th, 2007

Prince Album Review | Planet Earth

Prince is American, always has been, always will be, I know this, you don’t need to tell me. So why then am I reviewing his new album Planet Earth on a British Music blog? Well, although I’ll be mainly covering British bands and singers, I reserve the right to occasionally review or talk about bands […]

By Dave Parrack -- 1 comment

July 12th, 2007

UK Album Sales Drop Drastically In 2007

We all know single sales have been dropping for a good while, and that to be Number 1 in the charts now takes a lot less effort now than 2 years ago. But it seems that album sales are dropping now too.
Album sales are down by 10% in the first half of 2007, according to […]

By Dave Parrack -- 2 comments

July 12th, 2007

Art Brut Album Review | It’s A Bit Complicated

I love Art Brut. I felt I should say that before I start the album review so there’s no thoughts of a conflict of interest. I first heard of them in 2004 when ‘Formed a band’ and ‘Modern Art’ started being played on MTV2 and Radio 1. I remember ‘Emily Kane’ being released as a […]

By Dave Parrack -- 5 comments